Yeah, the story here is specifically about start-stop. Sounds like if you stall you just need to dip the clutch to restart the engine.

No manual I’ve owned has had a safety switch like that. Crank the engine in gear and you’ll lurch forward a foot before the engine stalls due to the handbrake, usually. Starting in fifth is a good test for clutch slip.

Not sure what to make of this:

The whole car looks hideous and ill-proportioned in this pic. Is it the angle, or the lack of spoiler and teensy wheels?

Apparently the interiors of these rattle like the inside of a cassette tape. 80’s economy car build quality, after all.

fast cars, low cars

Was that the 4-cyl 1.9L? They never should have put anything other than a straight six in that car.

110kph is still a respectable speed in Park.

The early fibreglass-bodied ones were even quicker.

How about the fact that Ferrari sold a sleeved-down 2.0l version badged as the 208 in Italy? Those mid-engined berlinetta looks with 153hp.

There’s some bit of trivia about the Mk1 GTi having the highest power-to-weight ratio of any Golf until they stuck the VR6 into the Mk3.

Have you seen the Ghia with the 993 engine swap?

You’re gonna love the E46 version then:

It’s the same suspension setup as the revered Z3 M Coupe too, although the wheelbase was even shorter on that.

This was already on sale as a Bentley though. The Phaeton was VW seeing if they could do their usual “sell one model across multiple brands” market segmentation trick that they do at the bottom end of the range (i.e. VW Polo = Audi A1 = Seat Ibiza = Skoda Fabia).

Nah, front end’s clearly a throwback to the 124 Spider of yore:

It’s a throwback. Audi does it too.

Or, you know Fiat 124 Spider in the front - that’s where the grill shape is from.

Renault 19?

The opera windows I’ve seen before ... and the landau tops ... but never a vinyl roof with a band of sheetmetal running through it.